https://markm.ac Writing, projects, and experiments by Mark Macdonald. en https://github.com/mosse/seshat-mcp project:https://github.com/mosse/seshat-mcp project Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ask counterfactual questions of the historical record. An MCP server (9 tools) and a web app that turn the Seshat Global History Databank into something you can interrogate: pick a civilisation, inject a hypothetical, and watch a forward-projected social-complexity trajectory with confidence bands. https://github.com/mosse/time-shift project:https://github.com/mosse/time-shift project Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A self-hosted time-shifting proxy for live radio. Buffers any HLS stream and plays it back on a delay you set. Catch an overseas morning show while the coffee brews in your own timezone. PWA with background audio, runs on a Raspberry Pi, no accounts or cloud. https://github.com/mosse/AlphabetSoup project:https://github.com/mosse/AlphabetSoup project Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT A little app for crossword puzzlers: enter a jumble of letters and it arranges them in a circle, shuffling with smooth, spring-loaded animations to help you spot the anagram. https://markm.ac/writing/building-resilient-llm-interfaces post:https://markm.ac/writing/building-resilient-llm-interfaces writing Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Exploring the challenges of working with LLMs and structured data to build intuitive interfaces. https://style-guider.vercel.app project:https://style-guider.vercel.app project Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT An LLM-powered copy editor that rewrites prose to match any style guide. Built on Claude, it surfaces edits inline as tracked changes you can accept or reject one by one, and stays resilient when the model returns malformed output. It’s the subject of an accompanying writeup on building robust interfaces for LLMs. https://gazet.com project:https://gazet.com project Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT A content-curation platform for publishing your best picks from the web as shareable "editions", and subscribing to the curators who influence you most. Like the Sunday sections every day: for you, by you. I founded it and built it end to end. https://markm.ac/writing/consume-less-create-more post:https://markm.ac/writing/consume-less-create-more writing Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT I don't do resolutions... https://markm.ac/writing/on-identity-equanimity-and-the-eu post:https://markm.ac/writing/on-identity-equanimity-and-the-eu writing Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts on Brexit. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/suck-webzine/473853/ project:https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/suck-webzine/473853/ project Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT A newsletter that re-issued the complete archive of Suck, the seminal 1995–2001 webzine: one post per day, 20 years later to the day, verbatim from the Wayback Machine. Grew to several thousand subscribers. Written up in The Atlantic.